Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Kevin Rapley wrote: > I would be interested to gather your thoughts around this solution, using > progress tags to mark progress through the form. A possible problem with this is that there is no guarantee that the user has completed earlier fields before moving o

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Joseph Taylor
IE8 and earlier Joseph R. B. Taylor /Web Designer / Developer/ -- Sites by Joe, LLC /"Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design"/ Phone: (609) 335-3076 Web: http://sitesbyjoe.com Email: j...@sitesbyjoe.com On 11/10/10 3:45 PM, Kevin Rapley wrote: I would be in

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Kevin Rapley
I would be interested to gather your thoughts around this solution, using progress tags to mark progress through the form. Form legend text Label for text input Form legend text Label for radio group Radio label Radio label Radio label F

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Price
On 10 November 2010 18:52, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > > I don't think lists should be used for this (there might be a case for a OL > in case of dependant selects, but that would be a stretch). In the case of > DL, I'd say that the relationship between DTs and DDs is no better than the > one create

RE: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Understandable; however, with the change in HTML5 from Definition Lists > to Description lists, would it not be more semantically valuable to > mark forms up using and , for labels and inputs, providing the > document with a more solid structure? As stated, my concern with this > is the lack of

RE: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Kepler Gelotte
up.org Subject: Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms Eric, There are a ton of ways to do this. At the moment I stick with one of two formulas: My Legend My Label Or if its a bunch of checkboxes or something: My Legend

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Joseph Taylor
Eric, There are a ton of ways to do this. At the moment I stick with one of two formulas: My Legend My Label Or if its a bunch of checkboxes or something: My Legend Label for the checkbox Label for the checkbox Label for the checkbox Jos

RE: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Steve Green
ember 2010 17:30 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms Understandable; however, with the change in HTML5 from Definition Lists to Description lists, would it not be more semantically valuable to mark forms up using and , for labels and inputs, providing the doc

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Eric Taylor
Understandable; however, with the change in HTML5 from Definition Lists to Description lists, would it not be more semantically valuable to mark forms up using and , for labels and inputs, providing the document with a more solid structure? As stated, my concern with this is the lack of groupin

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
On 10/11/2010 17:08, Eric Taylor wrote: From my experience, the best practice, currently, is using Description lists; however, my concern with this method is the lack of semantic grouping when using this set of elements. Another method I have used is using an Unordered list to group each field